New Jersey Archives. Call No. Local History Ref F131 .D63 (2nd floor open shelf). A multi-volume work containing newspaper extracts, marriage records, government meeting minutes, and will abstracts from the colonial period through the early 19th century. Each volume is indexed.

Sinclair, Donald A. A New Jersey Biographical Index. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993. Call No. Local History Ref CT249 .S56 (2nd floor open shelf). A name index of 100,000 biographies appearing in 237 New Jersey biographical sources published before 1980. The Newberry holds many of the works indexed.

Sinclair, Donald A. New Jersey Family Index: A Guide to Genealogical Sketches in New Jersey Collective Sources. New Brunswick: Genealogical Society of New Jersey, 1991. Call No. F133 .S55 1991. An index to genealogical sketches in 75 local and family history publications, many owned by the Newberry.

MILITARY RECORDS

New Jersey Adjutant General. Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War. Trenton: Nicholson, 1872. Call No. Local History Ref E263 .N5 N56 1872 (2nd floor open shelf). Indexed separately in Index of the Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War. Newark: The Historical Records Survey, 1941. Shelved with the publication.

New Jersey Adjutant General. Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars 1791-1815. Trenton: State Gazette, 1909. Call No. Local History Ref E359.5 .N4 N3 (2nd floor open shelf). Includes soldiers in the 1791 Indian Expeditions, the 1794 Pennsylvania Insurgency, naval wars with France (1798-1801), Tripoli (1801-05), and Algiers (1815), and the War of 1812. Indexed in Jackson, Ronald V. Index to Military Men of New Jersey 1775-1815. Bountiful, UT: Accelerated Indexing, 1977. Call No. Local History Ref E263 .N5 N55 (2nd floor open shelf).

New Jersey Adjutant General. Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-1865. Trenton: John L. Murphy, 1876-1878. Call No. F8349 .4979. Index for this work is found in volume 2, part 2.

FEDERAL CENSUSES

The records of the United States census for New Jersey for 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820 do not survive. All other years are available on-line at the public access computers; ask at 2nd floor reference desk. Printed indexes to the 1830, 1840, and 1850 censuses can be found in the Newberry catalog.

STATE AND COLONIAL CENSUSES

Norton, James S. New Jersey in 1793: An Abstract and Index to the 1793 Militia Census of the State of New Jersey. Salt Lake City, 1973. Call No. Local History Ref F133 .M67 (2nd floor open shelf). This work uses tax records for counties where militia census records were not available.

Stryker-Rodda, Kenn. Revolutionary Census of New Jersey. Cottonport, LA: Polyanthos, 1972. Call No. F853 .852. A reconstructed census based on tax records, showing name and county of residence for 1773-74, 1778-80, and 1784-86.

PERIODICAL

The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. Published by the Genealogical Society of New Jersey, 1925–. Call No. Local History Ref F131 .G32 (2nd floor open shelf). Each volume is indexed. Three master indexes have also been created for volumes 1-30, 31-40, and 41-50: see Stryker-Rodda, Kenn. Index to The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. Cottonport, LA: Polyanthos, 1973-1982. Shelved with the periodical.

ONLINE RESOURCES

The Research Your Family History section of the New Jersey Digital Highway website, provides an extensive collection of links to New Jersey state and county genealogy resources.